Isolation can open up a void. Pete lashes out at his younger brother in the wake of his parents\" divorce, falling prey to a gruesome curse. Kasey struggles with the lengths she\"ll go to survive on the streets after stealing a pair of unusual novelty glasses....

Haunted by the past . . . To avoid confronting an ugly truth, Nole falls prey to a monster that punishes past transgressions. Growing weaker by the day, nine-year-old Jake looks back on the time before he was sick, imagining life as if he were well again....